Over the weekend, one agency gave Nike's newest product a bit of extra air. To celebrate the release of Nike's new Vapormax (and the 30th anniversary of the Nike Air Max), Space150, one of Nike's digital agencies, attached one of the shoes to a weather balloon and sent it straight into the stratosphere. After working...
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Digital & Tech Daily
March 28, 2017
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Space150 pulled off the stunt in just a weekend for Air Max Day
By Marty Swant
Over the weekend, one agency gave Nike's newest product a bit of extra air. To celebrate the release of Nike's new Vapormax (and the 30th anniversary of the Nike Air Max), Space150, one of Nike's digital agencies, attached one of the shoes to a weather balloon and sent it straight into the stratosphere. After working...
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Verizon, Altice and others eye startups—and pending legislation
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Perhaps a souped up TweetDeck?
By Marty Swant
Twitter is considering building a subscription-based product for some users, a move that could potentially give the platform more revenue while adding more tools for its stagnant user base. Today, Twitter confirmed it's conducting a survey to see if users are interested in a "new, more enhanced version of TweetDeck"--Twitter's dashboard for posting and monitoring...
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Checking in on college hoops, Snapchat, Instagram and iHeartRadio
By Christopher Heine
There's been a ton of research come out this week around social media marketing and mobile topics. Check out the eight digital marketing stats this week that grabbed our attention. 1. Snaps first According to research by student loans company LendEDU, 58 percent of the 9,381 millennials it polled said they typically open up a...
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NBCUniversal and Sky weigh in at Adobe Summit
By Marty Swant
Television networks are increasingly betting on a future filled with programmatic advertising, and while Google continues to face criticism over where it displays brands' ads on YouTube, some TV execs say it could remind marketers to seek safe inventory. It's been less than a week since YouTube started facing mounting criticism over brands' ads appearing...
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The companies both unveiled updates this week
By Marty Swant
At the Adobe Summit this week in Las Vegas, Adobe unveiled the latest suite of updates for Sensei, the company's platform for artificial intelligence that competes with IBM's Watson and Salesforce's Einstein. The updates, which include an expanded partnership with Microsoft to pull the Microsoft's CRM data into Adobe's cloud, could help marketers improve spending...
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The controversial move would strengthen online ads
By Christopher Heine
The United State Senate voted today to repeal regulations that forbade an internet service provider from selling users' data without their permission, representing a victory for Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and other broadband services. Digital advertising and marketing players also probably won--especially if the House of Representatives passes the bill and sends it to pro-business President...
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David Fischer talks the future of social and video at Adobe Summit
By Marty Swant
Facebook's head of advertising said he expects more marketers to join the trend of purpose-driven marketing, following a series of Super Bowl spots that went beyond cute dogs in favor of more meaningful messaging. Speaking today at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, David Fischer, Facebook's vp of advertising and global operations, said he hopes...
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